Claudio Szynkier

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Place of Birth São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Claudio Szynkier

Biography

Brazilian musician, composer, visual artist and filmmaker born in central São Paulo. Has acclaimed music works under the name Babe, Terror. Has been active in Brazilian film criticism (Folha de S. Paulo, Kleber Mendonça Filho's Cinemascópio, Contracampo, Paisá) in the 1990s and early 2000s. Makes, in his own words, "garage cinema" and "phantom bedroom music" since 2007. Started for real with short "Planalto Rhonda". Then made 2 features in a row, "Os Pólos" and "A Princesa de Rangoon". Has an interest in "secret archives", the "cinema as a platform for music and vice versa", likes the "mixtures that don't have much reason, but lead to strange portals"; says he makes music and movies "for the mystique of uncertainty". --Marjorie Maccard

Known For

Director

2022
The Poles

as Director

2021
2020
Rhonda Highlands

as Director

Sound

2022
The Poles

as Music

2021
The Rangoon Princess

as Original Music Composer

2021
The Rangoon Princess

as Music Producer

Editor

2022
The Poles

as Editor

2021

Actor

2022
The Poles

as Voice Before the Magic Machine

2021

Camera

2021
The Rangoon Princess

as Director of Photography

Writer

2021

Producer

2021
The Rangoon Princess

as Researcher

Crew

2022
The Poles

as Cinematography